Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

Joys divided are increased.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.